Are you looking for a fun mystery book? Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin fits the bill. I loved it.

This new novel by Uzma Jalaluddin starts out following Kausar Khan navigating life after her husband's death when she gets a surprising call from her daugther, Sana, stating that she is about to be arrested for the murder of her landlord of the shopping center where her daughter's clothing store is located. Kausar knows she must help her daughter, even though she fears returning to Toronto due to her sad past, she catches a flight to assist Sana. Once she arrives in her old Golden Crescent neighborhood, Kausar realizes things have changed significantly and there are a variety of other things going on such as car thefts. Kausar has a history of excellent intuition that leads her to discovering things and helping out friends and family. The book follows Kausar as she works with her granddaughter and other characters to piece together what happened in order to help Sana.

I think this may be Uzma Jalaluddin's best book yet. The only book of hers I haven't read is Much Ado about Nada. I was excited to see that she branched out do to a mystery novel that wasn't a thriller, but more of a fun, sort of comedic murder mystery. I always really enjoy the characters that she creates. Kausar was an interesting character, married young, lost her youngest child, and now widowed with this unique intuition that helps people. I think at times the book was a bit predictable especially after reading Ayesha at Last, I'm always suspicious of every character that comes across as friendly. Overall really easy read. The ending was a bit abrupt. I wish we would have gotten a little epilogue to get us excited for the next book in the series as I'm assuming this is the first of many in the Kausar Khan Investigates series!